Bernardo Santos e Sousa

Bernardo is the Executive Director of Portugal Digital, a public team created to be one of the key components to Portugal’s transition to a more digital, competitive, and internationally strengthened country in the context of digital transformation. He is also the Executive Coordinator of the Education, Vocational Training and Inclusion Axes of the National Digital Skills Initiative - INCoDe.2030.

Graduated in Economics at Nova SBE, he holds two Graduation Programs on social policies and sociology by ISEG and completed The Lisbon MBA, a joint experience between Católica-Lisbon, Nova SBE and MIT.

He began his professional career in the private sector, having embraced shortly after a volunteer experience in Timor-Leste several positions and challenges in the public sector. He was the first Director of the High Commission for Migrations, member of the Board of the Institute of Employment and Vocational Training, senior consultant of the Lisbon City Council and Coordinator at the the Commission for Citizenship and Gender Equality. In 2020 he joined Portugal Digital, having started as Coordinator for Empowerment and Digital Inclusion of the Action Plan for Digital Transition.